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ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLANCE AWARDS

Concrete News

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association 2024 Environmental Excellence Awards program honors 11 plants. Now in its 29th year, the program offers producer members national recognition for outstanding contributions to protecting the environment and maintaining sound environmental management practices. It salutes operators that have surpassed regulatory and/or permit compliance requirements while proving a commitment to excellence through plant and staff…

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Gotham Ready Mix: Leading by Innovation

Jennifer Jensen

Gotham Ready Mix, a concrete supplier in New York City, is no stranger to innovation, delivering performance materials to mid- and high-rise residential or commercial projects across the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx boroughs. The producer started in 2019 with 35 trucks and three plants in Brooklyn and Bronx. Fast-forward to 2024 and it has grown drastically. Gotham Ready Mix…

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Right Place, Right Product

Concrete News

International Precast Solutions abides 125-year service life model behind Gordie Howe International Bridge Specifications One of this decade’s top bridges the world over is on track for a 2025 opening. With a contract value north of $5 billion, the 1.5-mile Gordie Howe International Bridge links Windsor, Ontario and Detroit and serves the busiest land border crossing in North America. A…

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Texas Horsepower

Don Marsh

Heldenfels Enterprises Inc. (HEI) is among Texas precast, prestressed producers that rode a strong Great Recession recovery, then positioned its human and plant capital for even healthier public and private construction market activity after 2020. Based at an 85-acre San Marcos site along Interstate 35, HEI is uniquely equipped to serve segments accounting for the bulk of the state’s structural…

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Profit Characteristic Curve

Vic Serri

Quantifying the relationship between ready mixed concrete customer price and last-mile logistics productivity A ready-mix concrete producer’s profitability is heavily dependent upon a robust revenue management strategy. Linking customer product price and last-mile logistics metrics allows managers to evaluate each account’s profit contribution. The profit relationship between customer price and last-mile logistics productivity is defined as the Ready-Mix Profit Characteristic…

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Beltway Alignment

Don Marsh

Chaney Enterprises’ newest Maryland plant fills prime area along Washington, D.C./Interstate 494 periphery Chaney Enterprises, a Maryland-based ready mixed concrete, sand, gravel and block producer, has an unrivaled organic growth and acquisition record over the past five years along the Atlantic Seaboard markets, leading to a portfolio of 125 sites in six states, including Washington, D.C., and nearly 1,300 employees.…

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Adapting to Change

Josie Patterson

A visit with American Concrete Pipe Association Chair Tom Hartley Few are better suited than Tom Hartley to take the reins as 2024 American Concrete Pipe Association chair while members and staff execute a new strategic plan. With a tenure spanning 29 years at Rinker Materials, he has played a pivotal role across the enterprise, including tours in finance, mergers…

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Aggregate Harvest

Concrete News

New processing methods economically recover C33-grade material from construction, demolition and excavation waste streams One of the newest instances of circular economy principles impacting concrete materials is recovery of sand & gravel from inert or contaminated soils tied to construction, demolition and excavation. Investors in next generation wash and classification plants aim to tackle new transportation and environmental economics forcing…

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Marginal Feed, High Performance Yield

Don Marsh

Successful deployments of treatment technologies for substandard coal combustion products (CCP) signal decades of Class F fly ash supplies for North American concrete producers. Such assurance stands regardless of specification-grade ash availability reflecting power generating station coal to natural gas conversions—or the pace of a broader energy sector shift from fossil fuels to alternative sources. With 6 percent to 15…

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